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Submitted to Contest #332
The Perfect StormThe weekend was cold that mid–January. A storm hovered in the forecast, the kind that makes you keep glancing out the window without even realizing it. We had only been in our new home for five months. My mom had moved in with us that Thursday. We were just beginning to settle into this new reality—coming to terms with the fact that we were now responsible for her care in her later years. After decades of independence and accomplishment, she had just been diagnosed with dementia. We didn’t really know what the road ahead wou...
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